It's been ten years since the massive WTO demonstrations that rocked Seattle and the world. While the global justice movement has been successful in preventing further WTO expansion, President Obama has still not committed to fulfill his campaign...
I'm thankful that there is a fair-trade groundswell in Congress, with positive forward-looking legislation like the Trade Act occupying an important space in the national debate.
I'm thankful that there's still no ratified Colombia, Panama or...
As if further evidence were needed that offshoring is no longer a pure blue collar phenomenon, the WSJ reports on the latest occupation to get hit:
Anime, Japan's stylized animation that has become hugely popular
around the world, helped reshape...
Dean Baker from CEPR has a way to deal with the trade deficit without the Chinese government having to do a thing:
First, there is no issue of "manipulation" with China's currency. The
Chinese government is not sneaking around in the middle of the...
Fair traders have focused a lot on getting the Obama administration change course on the Bush administration's failed trade and investment policy. The message we've gotten consistently is that this new approach is still being thought out, discussions...